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Blacking-Box Holder. No. 61,128. Patented Jan. 8, 1867.

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Letters Patent No. 61,128, dated January 8, 1867. v

IMPROVED BLAGKING-BOX HOLDER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, AMOS WILDER, of Calais, in the county of Washington, and State of Maine, have invented. a new and improved Blacking-Box Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specifieation.

The present invention relates to an extremely simple implement for holding more especially a blacking-box in the hand, so as not to soil the fingers with the blacking compound contained in it; which holder is of such a construction that it can be applied to and detached from the blacking-box with the utmost facility and ease.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improved blacking-box holder is illustrated- Figure 1 being a plan or top view of the same in connection with a blacking-box; and

Figure 2, a side or edge view of 'fig. 1.

A, in the drawings, represents my improved blacking-box holder, which holder consists of a handle portion, A and two semicircular curved arms, B, which together form a circle, or nearly so. The handle A and arms 13, are'made of one continuous piece of metal, which, in the present instance, is in the form of a wire; the said metal being in any suitable manner bent around or doubled, as it were, into the general shape shown in the drawings, and so as to form a suitable handle, A and the two arms, B, as hereinabove described, with the two ends of the wire meeting at or near the point marked 0 in the drawings. D, a ferrule or collar placed on the handle portion A of the holder, at or near that point of its length from which the arms B extend or commence to curve outward; this ferrule serving to hold the doubled wire together at that point. If-the wire constituting the handle is made so that it will spring apart, either by means of a spring or springs suitably applied to the same therefor, or in any other manner it is best to arrange the said ferrule, so that it can be slid or moved up or down upon the handle, and to thereby operate to close or open its jaws or arms B, according as it may be desired to have such arms grasp the box which they are to hold, or to release them therefrom. If, however, the arms B are made so as to spring open from each other, the ferrule may be soldered or otherwise properly fastened in place upon the handle portion.

From the above description of my improvedblacking-box holder it is obvious that it can be readily applied to or detached from the box; that is, susceptible of being used upon boxes of varying sizes and shapes; that by it the blacking can be removed from the box in which it is placed, for applying it to a boot or shoe, without the least danger or liability of soiling the fingers of the hand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A new article of manufacture, the holder, consisting of the bent wire A B, formed of one piece, as herein described, and having a ferrule D, as herein set forth, and for the purpose specified.

AMOS WILDER.

-Witncsses:

CHAS. B. ROUNDS, E. B. CLARK. 

